Everything Written on ARealGreenLife in 2020

How to Harvest and Use Queensland Arrowroot

Queensland arrowroot (Cana edulis) provides food for us, food for chickens, pigs, cattle and goats, mulch and/or compost material, and shelter for other plants. It’s super easy to grow and to harvest and it self-propagates to a certain extent but is not weedy or invasive. And I think it looks beautiful. What more could a polyculture food grower ask?

Homemade Ginger Sauerkraut

About how the ginger growing in our garden has inspired successful homemade sauerkraut in our kitchen, which in turn has inspired better maintenance of the ginger plants in the garden. Sauerkraut recipe included.

Stinging Nettle: Nourishment for You and Your Garden

Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica) has a long history of use for food, medicine, cordage, and dye. Here are some ideas for making use of the free food and fertilizer that this under-appreciated weed has to offer.

Okinawa Spinach

Okinawa spinach (Gynura crepioides) is an edible, nutritious, prolific, and low maintenance ground covering plant. It looks good enough to landscape with. And the more you eat it, the better it looks.

Sweet Violet – Edible, Medicinal, Beautiful

Sweet Violet (Viola odorata), is a shade-tolerant, ground-covering edible plant with a long list of nutritive and medicinal uses.

Rungi – Rainforest Floor Vegetable

A vegetable from the tropical highlands of Papua New Guinea, rungi (Rungia klossii) is an attractive, edible, nutritious year-round ground cover for the tropics and semi-tropics.

Building Ecosystems as a Side-Effect of Growing Food

This post uses a pumpkin patch to illustrate how interrelated elements in a vegetable garden, an orchard, or any living system, are healthier and happier than isolated fragments of life existing alone.

Regenerative Farming and Gardening

Regenerative gardening and farming has an intention to both feed people AND to leave the surrounding web of life stronger, richer, more complex and more resilient, rather than less so.

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RealFood

Weeds: Real Nutrition for Free

Wild edibles (aka weeds) provide better nutrition than supermarkets ever can, for free.

What’s Happened to Your Mineral Intake?

Minerals are essential to life, but they’ve become dramatically less available to us in the food we eat. This article explores why.

Easy, Natural Ways to Increase the Available Minerals in Your Diet

Assuming you’re eating the healthiest plant foods, grown in the healthiest soil, that you can find or afford, what else can you do to increase your mineral intake without using pills?

Supermarket Food is Like a Tiger in a Zoo

Industrialized food is a commodity, a hollow copy of what it was before it was disconnected from the web of life that gifts it to us – just as a tiger in a zoo is a hollow copy of the real, wild thing.

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Reconnecting

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Growing Up - for Adults

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